Black Sword stared at Thales' resolute face for a long, long time.

"That's right." Finally, Heijian nodded slowly, with an ordinary smile on his lips: "You are indeed a shining star."

At that moment, Thales was shocked and his eyes widened suddenly!

He grasped the Purifying Edge in his hand tightly.

"you……"

"Ah, if at this moment, I still can't guess your identity," Heijian shook his head with a half-smile, "Why are we still talking about finding a magician?"

"Your Highness Thales."

The next moment, he was held firmly by Heijian with his right arm!

"Hold your sword!"

Hei Jianhan said in a cold voice. He quickly jumped onto a half-collapsed roof in the direction of Kilika and jumped away.

In surprise, Thales felt the sound of wind whistling by his ears.

He knows his identity.

Thales couldn't help but think of King Nun and Asheida's words.

[The leader of that mercenary group has strange skills...]

[With a strange long sword...]

[Map of Fuxing Palace...]

[You are the assassin who killed the crown prince, aren’t you...]

Thales's heart was pounding.

What will he do?

But he couldn't turn back.

There was an overwhelming sound of explosions in the distance.

It was as if Kilica was angry.

"What are we going to do?"

It took a while for Thales to react. He suppressed the tension and shock in his heart and asked tremblingly.

"What should I do?" Hei Jian used his good right arm to hold him in his arms, and without stopping, he kept thrusting forward with his weak body.

"Blood Magician," the second prince frowned: "That guy... I saw with my own eyes that she couldn't be sealed by the legendary anti-magic weapon..."

"If we can't seal her... relying on those extremely weird abilities, if we want to fight her face to face..."

Uncontrollable worry surged in Thales's heart.

"Of course there is a way," Black Sword said with certainty: "There has never been an enemy that cannot be defeated - that kind of creature only exists in knight novels, and its name is 'Protagonist'."

"Ah?" Thales was stunned for a moment: "What can I do?"

"First of all," Black Sword turned dexterously to avoid a tentacle that loomed in front of him: "You have to change your mind."

Thales was slightly startled.

Change...brain?

"You think you are weak, don't you."

Black Sword lowered his head and let his voice float along the wind to Thales's ears: "Do you think the chance of winning against that guy is very small?"

Thales opened his mouth, took in a mouthful of cold wind, and spoke tremblingly.

"Isn't it?" Thales hugged the Purifying Frontier tightly in his arms and said with some depression, "I am very weak."

"Facing such an enemy...except for you, let alone me, even the super-level guys are insignificant."

Hei Jian heard this and sneered unmistakably.

"What I just said in front of Aixida is actually far from finished." Black Sword's words suddenly became a little serious: "And now, please listen to me."

Black Sword paused and stopped in front of a low wall. Beside them lay a pair of lovers who were motionless and hugging each other.

"No, little guy." Black Sword's tone was extremely cold.

The sound of houses collapsing again was heard in the distance.

It seems the battle is fierce.

Facing Black Sword's stern look, Thales suddenly felt inexplicably nervous.

Just listen to his categorical statement:

"You are not weak at all."

This time, hearing Black Sword's unquestionable tone, Thales was truly stunned.

"Do you think you have no power and are vulnerable? Anyone with a little ability can manipulate you at will?" Heijian lowered his voice and hid with him behind the low wall, listening to the roar coming from not far away.

Voice.

"Then why are you still standing here?"

"I..." Thales was at a loss for words: "Am I lucky? Occasionally a little clever? I can get away with it every time..."

Heijian's eyes were narrowed to a thin slit, but the light revealed inside was as compelling as ever.

A few seconds later, the leader of the Brotherhood said in an understatement, but without any doubt: "Only the truly weak will regard pure strength as proof of strength."

Thales raised his eyebrows.

"For the truly strong, strength is just embellishment."

"The real strength does not lie in how many pounds of heavy ax you can swing, nor in how fast you thrust the sword, nor in how strong the bow is, nor in how accurate the blade is." Seeing Thales frown, the black sword only slightly frowned.

After a pause, he continued expressionlessly: "It doesn't even matter how many thousands of troops you can command and how many strong cities you can conquer."

"I have seen extremely powerful people who are famous all over the world die in humiliation in a beggar's sack, and I have also seen powerful lords fall in despair under the ax of their servants," Black Sword's pupils gathered as he spoke.

The chill is overwhelming: "I have even seen an arrogant magician being frightened by a frail and sick girl, causing him to panic and lose his footing."

Thales took a deep breath, raised his head, frowned and whispered: "Extreme realm, lord, even magician... It's just a coincidence. In a very rare situation, combined with some impossible luck,

Only then will they have a chance to die in the hands of the weak..."

However, as Thales spoke, his voice gradually weakened.

He was a little dazed, watching Black Sword slowly shaking his head.

"You're right," the ordinary man breathed out: "Coincidences, situations, luck, opportunities, etc. - all of these combined are what determine the difference between strong and weak, superior and inferior, winner and loser.

The key to the difference.”

Thales opened his eyes wide and was slightly startled.

"you mean……"

Heijian slightly raised the corners of his mouth, as if looking at a naughty student: "A truly strong person regards all factors that determine victory or defeat as his own strength."

The sizzling sound disappeared in my ears.

The next moment, the figure of the black sword rises from the ground again!

Thales closed his eyes tightly, feeling the frost and snow coming towards his face.

But Black Sword's words still reached his ears word for word, and they were clear and unmistakable:

"The truly strong ones turn disadvantages into advantages, disadvantages into advantages, death into vitality, and absoluteness into uncertainty. They turn the enemy's strength into its weakness and infinitely magnify their own strength."

"They seek hope in desperate situations, win reversals from losses, sublimate good times into victory, and turn unexpected events into their own help."

The footsteps of the black sword stepped over a fallen man, and the pain of suffocation still remained on the deceased's face.

They turned around an alleyway that was half missing.

The sounds of fierce fighting ahead are getting closer and closer.

In the cold wind blowing on his face, Thales couldn't help but said, despite the cold and strong wind, "But..."

But Black Sword did not allow him to interrupt, but continued to speak.

"They spread out the chessboard in the vast world, using all living beings as chess pieces, and all things in the world as chess grids. They turned seemingly simple battles into a supreme game of chess to determine the outcome." Black Sword took a deep breath and looked up.

Xiang Tiankong: "This kind of person turns the enemy's reliance into mine, and regards factors including the enemy, himself, the situation, and luck as bargaining chips..."

"This kind of person holds everything in his hands, takes the world into his heart, and has the whole situation in his sight..."

"Only those who are qualified to be called," Black Sword lowered his head, and the profound meaning in his eyes made Thales freeze unconsciously, and listened quietly to what he said:

"The real strong man."

The sizzling sound of Kilika has become clearly audible, even getting closer.

There was silence between the two for a while, with only the snow on their faces reminding them of their situation.

Thales slowly opened his mouth, gritted his teeth and hesitated for a while, then he finally spoke.
To be continued...